My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
Tags
AI
Schema.org markup and entity recognition in 2026
How site-wide Schema.org markup and an llms.txt file shifted Aftertype from vague impressions to clearer entity recognition in 2026.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
From hobby banknote app to an enterprise AI pitch
A hobby banknote recognition app with a React Native + Expo camera pipeline grew into a serious AI intake tool and a pitch to a major currency grading company.
Why Littlebird Sits At The Center Of My AI Stack
I cancelled my separate AI subscriptions and centered the stack on Littlebird, with a Mac Studio as a sovereign AI hub and a single context loop.
Letting AI refactor one legacy stylesheet
I pointed an AI model at a 1,200-line legacy Sass file and asked it to refactor everything to Tailwind. The useful part was mechanical syntax cleanup. The risky part was everything that depended on design, layout, and accessibility intent.
CSS
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
Letting AI refactor one legacy stylesheet
I pointed an AI model at a 1,200-line legacy Sass file and asked it to refactor everything to Tailwind. The useful part was mechanical syntax cleanup. The risky part was everything that depended on design, layout, and accessibility intent.
Content breakpoints for a single hero component
A category hero only started working once its breakpoints came from the heading, cards, and nav, not from tablet and phone widths.
Why I Still Hand‑Code Every Hover State
I still hand-code every hover state instead of trusting component libraries. Not because I like pain, but because that tiny interaction layer decides how the site actually feels.
The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
CSS Variables in the Age of AI: Letting Models Design Your Themes
I stopped hand-tuning every color token and let AI generate theme palettes on top of CSS variables. The result: faster theming, fewer regressions, and weirder experiments.
Frontend
My Full Make.com Blueprint For Automating a Sheets → OpenAI → Ghost Content Pipeline
I wired my entire content pipeline into Make.com so a single row in Google Sheets turns into a published Ghost post. Here is the exact scenario, module by module.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
The grid decision that rewrote my lightbox logic
Locking aspect ratios on the Aftertype themes grid forced a rewrite of the lightbox and breakpoints, and made the gallery better at selling design.
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
ABM landing pages for maritime cybersecurity
Using the Blackhole Networks case to show what changes when you stop treating industrial cybersecurity buyers like generic SaaS traffic and start designing ABM landing pages on purpose.
From hobby banknote app to an enterprise AI pitch
A hobby banknote recognition app with a React Native + Expo camera pipeline grew into a serious AI intake tool and a pitch to a major currency grading company.
Productivity
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
Why I finally deleted NotePlan
NotePlan looked perfect on paper, but the interface kept getting in the way. Dropping it for a simple 4‑app stack made work feel lighter and tasks easier to manage.
Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica
How I use Habitica to turn cardiac rehab and daily routines into an RPG: a 6:40 circuit as a Daily, WHOOP recovery as XP, and a shutdown ritual quest.
The Make automation that was slower than manual
A Make scenario that cross-posted Ghost articles to Dev.to looked efficient. API churn, broken canonicals, bad timing, and key exposure made manual faster.
A tiny script that adds my internal links
A 40-line Python script adds internal links to my Ghost drafts via a shell alias. It is crude, fast, and only saves minutes, which is exactly why it works.
A publishing system is not a writing system
Automation can move your words into Ghost with perfect formatting. It cannot notice what mattered this week or decide whether it is true.
Biohacking
Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica
How I use Habitica to turn cardiac rehab and daily routines into an RPG: a 6:40 circuit as a Daily, WHOOP recovery as XP, and a shutdown ritual quest.
A 4‑Week Jump Rope Protocol for Cardiac Conditioning
A 4‑week jump rope protocol using YaoYao, WHOOP heart-rate zones, and Todoist to give cardiac patients a controlled way to rebuild conditioning.
A Month of Ignoring Daily Body-Fat Numbers
I hid the body-fat tile on my smart scale for 30 days and watched only a 7-day rolling weight average. The results were calmer mornings and steadier habits, not worse progress.
The boring training week I can actually repeat
My training week is aggressively boring: a fixed 20-minute kettlebell session, rec softball as a social anchor, wildcard days that can be nothing, and recovery as the actual plan.
The metric I stopped letting ruin my morning
For months my HRV score decided if I was allowed to feel competent that day. A 90-day experiment changed it from a verdict into one quiet input among many.
The health dashboard I check less now
My health dashboard went from decision tool to confirmation ritual. Once I stripped it back to a few blunt metrics, the excuses disappeared and the habits improved.
Tools
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
Why Littlebird Sits At The Center Of My AI Stack
I cancelled my separate AI subscriptions and centered the stack on Littlebird, with a Mac Studio as a sovereign AI hub and a single context loop.
Replacing Three Client Dashboards With One Local n8n
A client needed recurring reports from three different dashboards. One local n8n instance can take over the work, cut SaaS costs, and keep their data closer to home.
Why my posts now start with five bullets
I stopped asking my automation to invent posts from topics and started feeding it five ugly bullets from real life instead. The system did not change much, but the writing did.
The client code I will not paste into an AI tool
A practical line between “helpful AI code review” and “leaking your client’s business model,” based on operational privacy rather than legal fine print.
Build in Public
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
Lazy Loading Images Almost Tanked My Core Web Vitals
I broke my own Core Web Vitals by being clever with lazy loading. Here is the ugly LCP data, what actually fixed it, and the image loading rules I use now.
The Accessibility Audit That Slapped Me Awake
An external accessibility audit tore apart a client site I was proud of. Here is what they caught that I completely missed, and how it changed my workflow.
The Git hygiene workflow keeping ideebv-2026 lean
How I keep the ideebv-2026 repo lean using git filter-repo, strict ignores, and backup pruning. Real commands, no theory.
The CSS Specificity Bug That Wasted 3 Hours And Needed 1 Line
A real CSS specificity war story from a client project: three hours of confusion, one stubborn layout bug, and a single-line fix that solved it.
Thoughts
20 Years of richardlemon.com – A Website Grows Up
What the Wayback Machine remembers about you – and what it says about where you're going.
A New Chapter: Biohacking My Way to a Healthier Me
As the year ends, I’m excited to share the beginning of my weight loss journey—a journey I’m
I started a studio for Ghost themes
On 2 September I registered a company. On 6 September, four days later, the first product went on sale. The company is called Aftertype, it is a one-person studio in Maastricht, and it makes premium themes for Ghost.
Three things I delete from almost every AI draft
When I use AI for first drafts, I spend most of my editing time deleting: fake origin stories, forced AI angles, and tidy morals the model invented for me.
The practice that fell apart after ten minutes
A beautifully structured 90-minute U12 baseball practice fell apart in ten minutes. The fix was not a better spreadsheet, but a one-sentence pocket plan.
When I Stop Correcting a Young Player
How I decide when another coaching cue will help a young player and when it will only create noise, freeze them up, and block real learning.